Mass. Republican Party elects new leader, rejecting chairman Jim Lyons's bid for third term

[MissMillie]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mass-republican-party-elects-new-leader-rejecting-chairman-jim-lyons-s-bid-for-third-term/ar-AA16Y6Ji?pc=U483&cvid=1438afdf3bae4a19b0f1324dc992e970

Mass. Republican Party elects new leader, rejecting chairman Jim Lyons’s bid for third term

The Republican State Committee voted 37-34 to make Amy Carnevale its new chair, turning to a longtime state committee member from Marblehead who has worked in the White House and on Capitol Hill.

A lobbyist for K&L Gates, Carnevale has three times been an elected delegate to the Republican National Convention, where she twice backed former president Donald Trump, and she also advised his campaign in Massachusetts in 2016. She’s also helped raise money for former governor Charlie Baker, who appointed her to the Governor’s Commission on Intellectual Disability.

Carnevale has promised a fresh start for a party whose political power, share of registered voters, and fund-raising have all declined in recent years. She said she intends to “professionalize” a party apparatus that has been riven by polarization, internal lawsuits, and a barrage of personal attacks.

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I've been taxing my brain about what to think about Carnevale. It seems to me that she's a "GOP no matter who" kind of GOPer. She supports TFG as a member of the RNC, but raises money for Baker--a known "Never Trumper."

Of course, we're talking about Massachusetts here. It's overwhelmingly blue, not that it hasn't, once in a while, gone red. MA did vote for Reagan, but in 1972 it was the ONLY state not to go for Nixon (something I am very proud of).

MA has had some very popular GOP governors (Weld and Baker, and even Romney), but these are the types of GOPers that would NEVER support TFG or any type of MAGA candidate. If 2022 is a true indication of where the MA GOP stands, they have to know that they can't run an election denying, MAGA nut-job.

My own area of the state is pink. But the GOPers in my area are MAGAs. Not exactly sure why, when they've have such good luck and reasonable favorability that they would spend even one shred of their efforts on MAGA.... yeah, I can't figure them out.

So where does Carnevale intend to take them? I guess time will tell.

[getagrip_already]

1. MA is more purple than it appears.....

We also elected scott brown. And if jim mcgoverns seat didn't include parts of northhampton in addition to worcster and its suburbs, that seat would be red.

Don't take mass for granted. Fiips do happen.

[MissMillie]

2. What I thought I said was...

MAGA, TFGist has no chance in MA.

And that considering Carnevale's history... I don't know where she stands. She supported TFG as a member of the RNC, but raised money for Baker.

So what I was saying... (I guess) was that she just signed up for a job that is ill-defined.